Awesome Node.js

A curated list of astonishing Node.js frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php.

• Awesome Node.js
  • Documentation
  • Package Management
  • Database Drivers
  • ORM
  • Web Frameworks
  • RESTful API
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Template Engine

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• Docco - Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator, written in Literate CoffeeScript.
• Groc - Documentation generation, in the spirit of literate programming.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• Npm - Default package manager. Installs, publishes and manages node programs.

Database Drivers

Libraties for connecting and operating databases

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• Sequelize - Sequelize library provides easy access to MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL databases.
• Node-orm2 - Another Relational Object Mapper.

Web Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• Express - A minimal and flexible node.js web application framework.
• Flatiron - An adaptable framework for building modern web applications.
• Koa - A framework which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications.
• Totaljs - Friendly responsive design web application framework for node.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Sails - MVC framework which generates a RESTful JSON API.
• Node-restify - A node.js module built specifically to build correct REST web services.

Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Jade - Handful node template engine.
• Swig - A simple, powerful, and extendable JavaScript Template Engine.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!